songs; stories; stuff. I intend to go down swinging.
Yeah, Kat Tenbarge was much nicer to Jack Osbourne than I would have been, I would have just told him to go fuck himself. Also, if you're going to accuse a writer or journalist of using "AI" on the basis of em dashes, absolutely positively go fuck yourself.
Kat TenbargeSo I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.
I just learned that both these movies exist and that Russell Crowe plays a different character in each???
Stop listening to the manosphere listen to me the women folks want full bellies Open minds Working ears
I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't... www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
The Village Message BoardIts authenticity was discredited because of his reputation, but also because he was quick with gin at the time and wearing an item of knitwear back to front.www.tom-cox.com1. Hey folks: My pal (and recent Oscar nominee!) Pamela Ribon is making a documentary on Texas' UIL One Act Play competition, where teens compete statewide for theatrical glory. She's hoping for donations for post-production work and @scalzifamily.foundation is matching funds. www.oneactfilm.com
You may not need me to tell you why life is imitating art here – at least not if you’ve read this joyful 1930s comic soufflé in which Bertie Wooster encounters would-be dictator and at least initially fearsome foe, Roderick Spode
Massive layoffs of Post reporters doing meaningful work while the Opinion side spends money on 30-something conservatives churning out unsigned editorials and videos no one looks at.. just sad stuff
"Will AI make College Obsolete" I hate it here
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) JarvisWTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
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I can’t speak to how many authors use it (the authors I know are in the “revulsion” camp), but nobody is forced to lie about it, that’s silly. You might be “forced to lie about it” in order to do it and attempt to avoid the consequences, but the same could be said for straight-up plagiarism.
The WalrusAuthors are using AI. Publishers know it. And now, says publishing consultant Thad McIlroy, authors are being forced to lie about it. One cancelled horror novel didn’t just end a career—it exposed an industry-wide reckoning. https://thewalrus.ca/new-york-times-ai-generated-shy-girl-mia-ballard/
The criticism of Audi Crooks has absolutely nothing to do with basketball and everything to do with the belief that larger bodies deserve to be ridiculed and punished
WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK
I use Gemini when I'm bored — and it's better than doomscrollingIt became my ultimate distractionwww.androidpolice.com
people joke about what experiencing even the banalities of modern society would do to a medieval peasant, but here's a German tourist from a small farming village who says some Times Square salsa verde physically incapacitated him gothamist.com/food/theres-...
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchantsTo everyone at Grammarly,
I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...www.moryan.com
Markwayne Mullin and Tommy Tuberville doing cable hits all day to see who's the dumbest Republican senator
two men are running on the beach one in a yellow tank top and one in red shortsAlt: two men are running on the beach one in a yellow tank top and one in red shortsmedia.tenor.comI've taken the paywall off this piece I wrote about the wonderful art my mum and dad have been making in their 60s and 70s, which is also about the general (underacknowledged) concept of late-blooming creativity. I hope a few of you might find a moment to read it: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
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